Michael Macaferri of Eighth Blackbird, bass clarinet and Jeremy Ruthrauff, baritone saxophone perform Lee Hyla’s We Speak Etruscan at the Libby Bowl in Ojai, California as part of the 2009 Ojai Music Festival June 2009

Jeremy Ruthrauff, Steven Butters, Karlheinz Essl, Harrison Bankhead


fLOCK - the version of fLOW which was played at the "Chicago Cultural Center" - was controlled by a precisely worked out time-table (overall duration: 45 minutes) which the musicians followed by using stopwatches. The performers were Jeremy Ruthrauff, saxophones, Steven Butters, percussion, Mwata Bowden, reeds and Harrison Bankhead, bass from the Chicago AACM and the composer Karlheinz Essl himself on his computer-based electronic music instrument.

the premiere of Versírás for sopranino saxophone and pre-recorded sound by Bob Falesch

Kristi Randall of Kinetic Delta Cor and Jeremy Ruthrauff performing Ruthrauff’s piece entitled Window

Ruthrauff’s composition Window with Kinetic Delta Cor

Teeth by Greg Bendian accompanied Kinetic Deta Cor’s performance piece Tower of Babel

Le Frêne égaré by François Rossé

Le Frêne égaré

Le Frêne égaré

world premiere of Randall Wolff’s Urban Legends with Fulcrum Point New Music Project

Jacob TV’s Grab It! with Jeremy Ruthrauff, tenor saxophone, Jeff Handley, drums, and Larry Kohut, bass.  Chicago Cultural Center Cassidy Theatre November 5, 2010 with Fulcrum Point New Music Project.

Steven Burns, Randall Wolff, Rika Seko and Jeremy Ruthrauff following the world premiere of Wolff’s Urban Legends

composer Bob Falesch and Jeremy Ruthrauff after the premiere of Bob’s piece Versírás for sopranino saxophone and pre-recorded sound

Jeremy Ruthrauff, trumpeter Steven Burns, violinist Rika Seko and flutist Mary Stolper after the Fulcrum Point “plugged in” concert at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois.


Performances included Grab It! and Lipstick by Jacob TV (performed by Ruthrauff and Stolper), Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Aries played by Steven Burns and Holding Fast by Randall Woolf performed by Rika Seko.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra saxophones Susan Cook, Jeremy Ruthrauff, Jim Gailloretto before the CSO first ever performance of the Symphony No. 9 by Ralph Vaughn Williams November 18, 2010

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, conductor.  The CSO first ever performance of the Symphony No. 9 by Ralph Vaughn Williams November 18, 2010

American premiere of Jacob TV’s Grab It in the version for tenor saxophone, bass, drums and a new film.  Collins Trier, bass, Jeff Handley, drums and Jeremy Ruthrauff, saxophone.  November 12, 2009

Jeremy Ruthrauff with composer Jacob TV after the world premiere of the reality opera “The News” presented by Fulcrum Point New Music Project at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh

Chicago and Midwest

premiere of Jacob TV’s reality opera “The News” May 4, 2012 at the Park West Theater

the World premiere of “The News” a reality opera by Jacob TV April 27, 2012 at the Byham Theatre in Pittsburgh

Open rehearsal/reading session starting off the preparation for Jacob TV’s reality opera the News.  University of Illinois-Chicago on April 10, 2012

Fulcrum Point New Music Project rehearsals for Jacob Tv’s “The News” at Strobe studios in Chicago

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra saxophone section for Leonard Bernstein’s film music for West Side Story.  Performed live with a screening of the film.   Timother Mcallister, bass, baritone and soprano saxophones; Susan Cook, baritone and tenor saxophones and Jeremy Ruthrauff, alto saxophone.